Opening the box!

After building a workbench that fit my height and was long enough to accommodate a sea kayak I opened the present I bought myself for my 35th birthday.  The kayak is a 14.5 ft Pinguino from Pygmy Kayaks.

I started by only gluing 5 of the panels at a time, but in the future I would lay out all of the panels on the floor with plenty of weights to keep the panels from bowing.  My shop is warm and I have had difficulty with edge gluing the panels .  

The keel panels bowed a bit and I had to try again.  I saw some of the glass tape  along the seam and after a call to Pygmy I was using the hair dryer to take of the first attempt at epoxy and fiberglass.

I would recommend that you press out most of the bubbles and epoxy from under the plastic mylar before placing the weights on the seam.  I found that you cannot work it to much as long as you don't get epoxy on your gloves.  The next post will show what a seam looks like for me.

Left side hull panels